26 OregonStater.org KIMMIE FADEM E V E N T S 2026 STONE AWARD LECTURE WITH NATASHA TRETHEWEY May 8 at 7 p.m. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is the recipient of OSU’s Stone Award for Literary Achievement. One of the nation’s top university honors for American authors, the award was established by Patrick F. Stone, ’74, and Vicki Stone. For details about this PRAx event, see beav.es/trethewey. BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging April 11 at 7 p.m. Detrick Hall, PRAx 470 SW 15th Street, Corvallis This performance brings together composer and percussionist Andy Akiho with the Grammy-winning group Imani Winds. Learn more: beav.es/ bbb. As part of a new OSU-Cascades/PRAx series, they will also appear on April 12 in Bend. See beav.es/ bbb-bend for details. SAVE THE DATE specimens — perfect for research. (Check out the Oregon iNaturalist page at bit.ly/ oregon-inaturalist.) In her role as the Oregon State University Herbarium curator, Uehling harmonizes the iNaturalist datasets with OSU’s library of over 400,000 dried fungal specimens. Her mycology students’ finds will be preserved there, too — more data gathered from Oregon forests. At the end of our class foray, we gathered by a low stone wall and looked over our bounty. Mushrooms passed carefully from hand to hand, each one an example of fungal diversity. “We think that we understand maybe 5% of the fungal species that are out there,” said Uehling. “In our databases, a small subset of species have been observed thousands of times, but there are over 4,000 species that have been observed less than 10 times. To establish a baseline understanding of fungi, and how their populations might change over time, it’s important to pay attention to the whole wealth of species around us.” Ever since the class foray, I’ve found myself stopping to take a closer look when I notice fungi — wandering just off-trail on a hike or squatting down in lawns to examine a mushroom closely. When I inevitably notice some strange and unique detail — shaggy hairs on the cap, a tattered ring around the stalk, the intricate maze of the gills — it’s been impossible not to think of the phrase I heard Uehling say many times that day in the field: “What a beauty.” F U N G I (R)evolution of Indigenous Foodways April 25, at 7 p.m. Detrick Hall, PRAx 470 SW 15th Street, Corvallis Oglala Lakota Sioux chef Sean Sherman talks about his efforts to revitalize Indigenous food systems. Sherman’s Minneapolis restaurant won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in America in 2022. See details at beav.es/ sioux-chef. The President’s Concert June 6 at 7 p.m. Detrick Hall, PRAx 470 SW 15th Street, Corvallis Named in honor of President Emeritus Edward J. Ray and his late wife, Beth Ray, President’s Concert represents the pinnacle of the choral year at Oregon State and features the Chamber Choir, a mixed-voice ensemble. Learn more: beav.es/2026-choir. Find more events at ForOregonState.org/events and prax.oregonstate.edu. continued
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